Negotiating Your Salary Is Tricky Business

If you’re looking for more tips on how to negotiate salary for a new job, you should check out this article from Cash Money Life about negotiating salary.

Things to remember when negotiating salary:

• Always make sure that you wait to start talking salary. Don’t jump the gun and look like all you care about is the money. If the money is the only reason that you want the job, you shouldn’t be applying for it.
• Go into the interview knowing what you are worth. My tagline is “earn what you are worth”, but first you need to define that. I’ll have a more in depth post about how to gauge what you are worth.
• Factor in benefits when negotiating a salary package. You have to think in terms of a comprehensive compensation package, rather than just a dollar figure. The easiest way to ask for a higher starting salary is to cut some of the other benefits included in the package.

The most important thing to remember is that you shouldn’t limit yourself to a certain starting salary just because that’s what everyone else starts at. You are worth something to that employer, and you bring a unique skill set to the table, so ask for a salary based on the value you bring to the company, not solely based on precedent.

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